However, the other four high priests had already focused their attention on Zoquila. However, due to the fact that their faces were rather special, no one could tell that they were in shock.
Until now, Lin Li still had no idea why Sendros had invited him to the Darkness Shrine. Hence, he naturally wouldn't think too much about it. Hence, he said, "Sure, I'll have to trouble you tomorrow, High Priest Zoquila." After saying that, he bade farewell to everyone again and left the arena.
After Lin Li left, the other four high priests finally couldn't hold it in anymore. Gergila was the first to ask the question. He still had no idea what Sendros had said to Zoquila and the others, but after listening to the others, he was once again in disbelief even though he had already been very convinced of Lin Li's words. While Gergila was digesting the shock brought about by the news, the Werewolf, Vampire, and Black Knight surrounded Zoquila and asked another question.
"Zoquila, what place did you mention to Mage Felic just now? Could it be …" Culostein asked worriedly. In fact, as a high priest, he had already vaguely guessed it, but he still couldn't believe that Zoquila would suddenly be so bold.
"Yes, isn't this a good opportunity to confirm Mage Felic's identity?" Zoquila said, seemingly wanting to go all out.
"Have you forgotten what Sendros just said? I think we might as well accompany Mage Felic for a few more sparring sessions in the next few days. Maybe we can learn something from it," said the werewolf high priest, Poladio, who was much more cautious than the two mages.
"Yes, we shouldn't doubt Sendros' words," the Black Knight Nostaro said in a muffled voice.
However, faced with the persuasion of his companions, Zoquila shook his head, and said, "No, this idea isn't as bad as you think. Sendros was also holding back his words, which meant that he wasn't fully confident about Mage Felic's identity. If we can confirm Mage Felic's identity, it would be a help to Sendros. He won't blame us for this. If it turns out that Mage Felic isn't Mage Felic, what's wrong with what we're doing? "
"This …" After hearing Zoquila's explanation, the other four high priests fell silent. They had to admit that what Zoquila said seemed to make sense. The believers of Darkness did not know that the Darkness Shrine was on the brink of death, but the high priests could not help but be concerned. If they were right, they would be helping Sendros. If they were wrong, they could only blame it on Mage Felic's bad luck. Although he and the Tower of Dusk were of great value, no one could be bothered about that at this juncture.
The next day, Sendros went to the Eternal Darkness Altar, while Zoquila brought Lin Li to a rather remote place in the depths of the Darkness Shrine.
"Is this the place you were talking about?" Lin Li looked at the scene in front of him strangely. It was a quaint door with a magical barrier that rippled like water in the middle. Lin Li thought that Zoquila would take him to the library of the Darkness Shrine today, but it didn't look like a library at all.
"Master Felic, please rest assured. You're the most distinguished guest of the Darkness Shrine. Although this is a forbidden place for other believers of Darkness, you're definitely qualified to enter. We, including High Priest Sendros, comprehend the Laws of Darkness here. Please come with me, "Zoquila said as he strode towards the door.
I don't think he's going to harm me. I don't seem to have any feud with this Necromancer, and I was invited to the Darkness Shrine by Sendros. Since Sendros and the others were all comprehending the Laws of Darkness here, it seemed to be no different from the Darkness scripture. After Zoquila entered the door, Lin Li stroked his chin and paced back and forth in front of the door twice. In the end, he still decided to go in and take a look.
Lin Li had the debris of the stars, Gloomy Dark, which indeed contained the purest nomological power of Darkness. However, it was just like a mage apprentice who had an advanced magic book. Although he could figure out some things, the process would definitely be arduous and slow, and the knowledge obtained would be incomplete. Hence, mage apprentices would need some basic magic books to make up for the gaps in their foundation in order to better learn advanced magic books. What Lin Li needed now was the basic knowledge about the Laws of Darkness so that he could better comprehend the Laws of Darkness on Gloomy Dark. That was also the reason he was learning theurgy in the Brilliance Shrine.
However, as soon as he stepped through the door, Lin Li immediately regretted it. High Priest Zoquila, who had entered first, had long disappeared, and there was another world behind the door. There was soft and dense grass beneath his feet, but the grass was black. There were also wild flowers blooming in the grass, but the flowers were also black. There was a dense forest in the distance, but the trees were all black. The sky was black, and so was the entire world. If it weren't for the fact that he had some understanding of the Laws of Darkness, Lin Li wouldn't have been able to see anything at all.
"Damn it, what the hell is this place? What is that shameful Zoquila trying to do!?" Lin Li cursed, but he had no choice but to step forward, because the door behind him had long disappeared.
If Lin Li had just entered, he still had a sliver of hope in his heart. However, when he stopped after walking for a distance, he was certain that he had definitely been tricked. This was because he "saw" countless pitch-black magical beasts swarming towards him from all directions. If there was a white background, those black magical beasts would definitely be the most vivid silhouette.
"Shadow Creatures, this is the damned Shadow Realm!" Lin Li finally thought of a place — the most disgusting dungeon in the Endless World, the legendary reverse side of Anril, the Shadow Realm. Just like the Undead Realm, the Shadow Realm was dependent on Anril, but they were also relatively independent of each other. They were both composed of a relatively single World Laws.
The Tide of Death used by Necromancers was to open a door to the Undead Realm, and use the life aura of Anril to slowly attract the army of Undead creatures. Otherwise, how could the decaying bones of Anril really form a terrifying combat power?
The difference between the Shadow Realm and the Undead Realm was that the Shadow Creatures could not leave the Shadow Realm. Although they were much stronger than the Undead creatures, and even the most ordinary Shadow Magical Beast was at least level-10, any light would be extremely fatal to the Shadow Creatures.
When the Shadow Creatures appeared around him, Lin Li's first thought was to use Holy Light Magic, but he got a great shock when he tried it. There seemed to be a force in the entire Shadow Realm that prevented any light from appearing. Not to mention Holy Light Magic, Lin Li couldn't even release a small fireball in the Shadow Realm. It could be said that any magic related to light had been banned by the powerful World Laws.
It was not just magic. Lin Li took out the Helios' Scepter, and wanted to cast a group of falling stones. Stones had nothing to do with light, right? However, when he injected mana into the Helios' Scepter, he found that the Helios' Scepter had also lost its effect. It seemed that the injection of mana would cause the gemstone on the scepter to glow, and hence, that was also prohibited by the World Laws.
Lin Li had no choice but to put away the Helios' Scepter, and cast a group of falling stones with his bare hands. Countless large black stones immediately fell from the sky towards the surrounding beasts. However, although the magic had been successfully cast, the damage caused to the Shadow Creatures was extremely limited. One reason was that the Shadow Creatures were unbelievably agile, and another reason might be the characteristics of the Shadow Creatures — they had extremely high resistance to magical and physical attacks. When the boulders hit their bodies, they would only roll on the ground and stand up again. There would only be some effect when the boulders hit their heads.
Lin Li's attack had clearly angered the surrounding beasts. Although they had long wanted to tear the outsider to shreds, the outsider's provocation still made them extremely angry. There were no roars, and the beasts were like the best assassins that pounced at Lin Li from all directions.
Lin Li could not distinguish the species of the Shadow Creatures, and only knew that there were wolf-like, lion-like, and tiger-like ones. Most of them could not be recognized from their appearance. Besides, he couldn't be bothered to identify them, because he couldn't even cast the Elemental Shield. He could only rely on his own body to avoid the attacks, and he was in a perilous situation.
In fact, there were also defensive spells for earth element magic, but if he were to use the Stone Armor Spell, he would become a target for the Shadow Creatures. Fortunately, after fighting with Gergila yesterday, Lin Li went back and flipped through some knowledge related to Dark Magic. Hence, he thought of the Shadow Armor in time.
"Damn it, do you really think I can't do anything to you? Have a taste of this!" Lin Li used the Shadow Armor to temporarily resist the attacks of the Shadow Creatures. As he finished chanting a spell, he pushed his hands forward, and a black ice ball that was emitting a chilling aura flew towards the beasts. The ice looked crystalline and shiny, but it was all reflected light. In this world where there was no light, there was no reflection. Hence, it was naturally not prohibited by the World Laws.
As the black ball of ice flew towards the herd of beasts, it spun and shot icicles in all directions. The ice ball was a Legendary-level magic spell, and no matter how high the magic defense of the Shadow Creatures was, they were like paper in front of the Legendary-level magic spell. As soon as the ice cones were thrown, they collapsed in the blink of an eye. The final explosion of the ice ball even caused a vacuum to appear in the horde of Shadow Creatures.
After throwing out more than 10 ice balls, the Shadow Creatures were finally repelled, but Lin Li still felt uneasy. Clearly, the Shadow Creatures were only the lowest level of creatures in the Shadow Realm. Legend had it that there were powerful creatures such as the Shadow Wyrm in the Shadow Realm.
Lin Li's worries soon became a reality. The Shadow Creatures that had been lingering in the distance seemed to have suddenly been frightened, and fled in all directions. Immediately afterwards, a few huge pressures came from the sky. Lin Li "looked" into the sky, and indeed saw three Shadow Creatures in the form of wyrms flying towards him from afar.
The Shadow Wyrm was said to be the bloodline left behind by the survivors of the ancient wyrms who had escaped into the Shadow Realm at the end of the prehistoric times and combined with the Shadow Creatures. Lin Li was not sure how strong the most powerful Shadow Wyrm was. After all, it was the bloodline of the ancient wyrms. In short, it would definitely not be weaker than the wyrms of Anril. At this moment, he could only rejoice that the three Shadow Wyrms that were pouncing towards him had not reached the Sanctuary-realm yet. They should have just reached level-20.
The three Shadow Wyrms had already flown to the sky above Lin Li's head in the blink of an eye. As soon as they arrived, they each spat out black flames at Lin Li. It was not accurate to say that they were black flames. Unlike the black flames of the Abyssal Demon Dragons, the black flames of the Shadow Wyrm did not burn the soul, but instead turned the existence of the enemy into a shadow state. In other words, once Lin Li was hit by the black flames of the Shadow Wyrm, he would not have to think about how to leave this place. He would have to stay in the Shadow Realm forever in the state of a shadow. Otherwise, he would be killed instantly even if he went out.
Lin Li did not want to stay in this dark place forever. He dodged the black flames, and used the Power of Flight to fly straight into the air. He then shot an Ice Sphere at the three Shadow Wyrms. However, the Shadow Wyrms were clearly wyrms, and the magic resistance in their bloodline was even increased because of their form. Although the Legendary-level Ice Sphere caused some damage to them, it was not enough to kill them.
The Helios' Scepter could not be used, and magic was also restricted to a certain extent. If not for some understanding of the Laws of Darkness, even vision would be completely lost. However, fortunately, they were only three Shadow Wyrms that had just reached level-20. Although Lin Li could not deal with them at the moment, he was not in much danger.
While dealing with the three Shadow Wyrms, Lin Li was still thinking about how to leave this damned place as soon as possible. Clearly, there was a kind of World Law here that should prohibit the existence of all light. However, compared to the perfect Laws of Anril, the Laws here were more like the Laws of a Magical Domain, except that this Magical Domain was larger and stronger. At the thought of this, Lin Li felt that the Shadow Realm seemed to be somewhat similar to the Seven-Realm Spiral. Otherwise, the Shadow Creatures would not be so weak.
In order to leave this world, he would either have to pass through the door that he had used to enter, or seize control of the Laws of this world. However, there was no need to consider the door, and seizing control of the Laws did not seem to be that reliable. Since Lin Li could create the Light and Darkness Domain, he naturally had some mastery of the Laws of Darkness. However, at this moment, he was in this world, and he could clearly feel that the Laws of this world were far from what he could control. Only a Sanctuary Master could create the Seven-Realm Spiral. If this Shadow Realm was similar to the Seven-Realm Spiral, the Laws in it would definitely be at least Sanctuary-level.
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